Modifying Presentations / Title Master vs. Slide Master
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Formatting the text on an individual slide is fine and you may want to do that quite often. However if you have a large presentation and you decide that you don't like the text, changing it on each and every slide can be a bit tedious. A better way to do that would be to use the masters. Under view in the menu bar, under master you have a total of four. The only two I am going to talk about right now are slide and title master. The slide master and the title master allow you to essentially change one slide that will affect all of your other slides. If you have a 50 slide presentation, you don't want to have to go to each and every presentation slide, to change the font If you don't like the font. You can change it on one slide and it will change on all of the others. The title and slide master are as this. The title master will change only the title slide, only the first slide. The slide master will change every single slide that you have. So I am going to click on slide master. Basically you don't add text here, all you do is change the formatting of the text. For example let's say I want to use a different font, well I will select the text that is here and choose a different font. I can do the same with the bulleted text, choose a different font and it changes. I can also change font colors if I want. So basically the whole idea is to change the text here and then you don't have to worry about it on all of the other slides. Watch, I am going to go back to view in the menu bar and choose normal. Now remember we chose slide master, so the first slide is not going to change. However all of the other slides did. So basically when we go to view, to master, to slide master - any changes that you make here with regard to the formatting affect all of the slides. So whatever I choose it will affect all of my slides. So I can format them any way that I like. One thing you need to make note of, and let me show you using the master slide for the title. Now the title master is exactly the same, however when I change things here they will only change on the very first slide. One little catch - I am going to go back to normal view to my very first slide. Notice that it really did not change. The reason why it didn't change - notice my title slide, it's still right here, this text is still red, it's still the font I choose before. The reason why it did not change is because I had individually singled out this slide and changed the font and the font color. If you do that it doesn't matter what you change the master to, those individual changes that you made on the slide will remain.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 |
| Author: | Angie Rawling/NMG |
| SKU: | 33125 |
| ISBN: | 1889347930 |
| Release Date: | 2000-03-29 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 91 lessons |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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